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Florida families who lost their homes, farms, businesses or life savings in Cuba after Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution know they face slim prospects of ever recovering their property. But they have not lost all hope.

President Barack Obama's attempt to restore normal U.S. relations with Cuba has prompted the two nations to confront long-simmering disputes over property seized by Castro's communist government a half-century ago.

By law, the U.S. embargo of Cuba cannot be lifted until property claims filed by people who were American citizens at the time of seizure are somehow settled.

But for thousands of Cubans who fled to Florida leaving nearly everything they owned, the...

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